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	Night Moves
	You Only Live Twice
	The Big Sleep
	Saint Jack
	Jazz on a Summer's Day
	Metropolitan
	The Night Porter
	Julius Caesar
	Henry V
	Prospero's Books
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	The Sandpiper
	The Servant
	Too Late Blues
	Hamlet
	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
	The Verdict
	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
	Macbeth (Restored Version)
	The Mackintosh Man
	Lady L
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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	"Night Moves is a paradox: a suspenseless suspenser, very well cast with players who lend sustained interest to largely synthetic theatrical characters." Posted Jul 23, 2008	Night Moves (1975)	82%
	"Sean Connery plays 007 with his usual finesse." Posted Jul 22, 2008	You Only Live Twice (1967)	70%
	"Brittle Chandler characters have been transferred to the screen with punch by Howard Hawks' production and direction, providing full load of rough, tense action most of the way." Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Big Sleep (1946)	95%
	"Well crafted, finely acted, and conjures up a positively intriguing milieu." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Saint Jack (1979)	58%
	"Trite and often ponderous in its philosophizing by the two principals." Posted Jul 18, 2008	The Sandpiper (1965)	13%
	"It's Americana, and a document of its time as well via observation of audiences and the life surrounding the Newport event, not least the neatly-integrated footage concerning the America Cup Yacht Races." Posted Jul 18, 2008	Jazz on a Summer's Day (1958)	100%
	"*Filmmaker Whit Stillman makes a strikingly original debut with Metropolitan, a glib, ironic portrait of the vulnerable young heirs to Manhattan's disappearing debutante scene." Posted Jul 18, 2008*	Metropolitan (1990)	92%
	"The Servant is for the most part strong dramatic fare, though the atmosphere and tension is not fully sustained to the end." Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Servant (1963)	71%
	"A strange, brooding tale." Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Night Porter (1973)	65%
	"John Cassavetes' first Hollywood-made project shows a tendency to force casebook psychology on the characters at a loss of spontaneity." Posted Jul 15, 2008	Too Late Blues (1961)	80%
	"A tense, melodramatic story, clearly presented, and excellently acted by one of the finest casts assembled for a film." Posted Jul 9, 2008	Julius Caesar (1953)	100%
	"The color, the sets, the expanse and the imaginative quality of the filming are unexcelled." Posted Jul 9, 2008	Henry V (1944)	100%
	"Performances all fall in a middle range between the competent and the lackluster." Posted Jul 4, 2008	Hamlet (1990)	71%
	"*The product of a feverish, overflowing imagination, this almost impossibly dense take on The Tempest* displays both the director's audacious brilliance and lewd extravagance at full tilt.*" Posted Jul 3, 2008*	Prospero's Books (1991)	67%
	"One of those ambitious, over-reaching disappointments that is more interesting than some more conservative successes." Posted Jul 3, 2008	My Own Private Idaho (1992)	85%
	"A pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn't go for more." Posted Jul 3, 2008	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)	70%
	"Theatre of Blood is black comedy played for chills and mood and emerges a macabre piece of wild melodramatics." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Theatre of Blood (1973)	95%
	"Comedy is sustained in witty wedding ceremony." Posted Jul 1, 2008	The Taming of the Shrew (1967)	85%
	"At age 75, the director has made his most costly epic to date, and it's a dazzlingly successful addition to his distinguished career." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Ran (1985)	96%
	"A stirring, gritty and enjoyable pic which offers a plethora of fine performances from some of the U.K.'s brightest talents." Posted Jul 1, 2008	Henry V (1989)	100%
	"The film leaves a tremendous impact." Posted Jun 30, 2008	12 Angry Men (1957)	100%
	"*There are many fine performances and sensitive moral issues contained in The Verdict* but somehow that isn't enough to make it the compelling film it should be.*" Posted Jun 30, 2008*	The Verdict (1982)	96%
	"Midler and Long are never less than fun to watch." Posted Jun 23, 2008	Outrageous Fortune (1987)	50%
	"[The] filmmakers might have gotten more mileage if they'd rooted their adventure a bit more in reality." Posted Jun 23, 2008	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)	59%
	"A personal viewpoint, it mixes the grotesque, bawdy, comic and heroic, and does have a melancholy under its carousing and battles." Posted Jun 18, 2008	Chimes at Midnight (1967)	90%
	"Only a few of the Bard's best lines are audible. The rest are lost in strained, dialectic gibbering that is only sound, not prose." Posted Jun 18, 2008	Macbeth (Restored Version) (1948)	90%
	"Film is an impressive rendering of the Shakespearean tragedy." Posted Jun 18, 2008	Othello - The Lost Masterpiece (1952)	90%
	"The picture is a smart and exciting western paced by Paul Newman's intense portrayal." Posted Jun 18, 2008	The Left-Handed Gun (1958)	100%
	"There's a whole lot of nothing going on here." Posted Jun 18, 2008	The Mackintosh Man (1973)	56%
	"Paul Newman's talent is large and flexible, revealing an approach to the Graziano character that scores tremendously." Posted Jun 18, 2008	Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)	78%
	"Like the Thomas B. Costain book, the picture is overdrawn and sometimes tedious, but producer-director Victor Saville still manages to instill interest in what's going on, and even hits a feeling of excitement occasionally." Posted Jun 17, 2008	The Silver Chalice (1954)	20%
	"Strong story premise, excellent supporting cast and generally good dialog work to smooth over sometimes static direction and sluggish pacing." Posted Jun 17, 2008	Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)	n/a
	"Experiment of starting and ending this pic with Sophia Loren as an 80-year-old, an alleged aristocrat with a somewhat simpering tedious voice, doesn't come off." Posted Jun 17, 2008	Lady L (1965)	20%
	"From The Terrace builds up to one big cliche." Posted Jun 17, 2008	From the Terrace (1960)	38%
	"The result is rather good -- a sort of contemporary 'western' in the timber territory." Posted Jun 17, 2008	Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)	89%
	"*Fuzzily conceived and indecisively executed, Harry & Son* represents a deeply disappointing return to the director's chair for Paul Newman.*" Posted Jun 17, 2008*	Harry and Son (1983)	22%
	"Some of the gags are elaborate and as carefully timed as a dance sequence." Posted Jun 17, 2008	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)	33%
	"A big, gaudy, gimmicky comedy which continually promises more than it delivers by way of wit and/or bellylaffs." Posted Jun 17, 2008	What a Way to Go! (1964)	n/a
	"Stylish, improbable, entertaining, superficial, well cast, and totally synthetic." Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Drowning Pool (1975)	62%
	"Uses gritty humor to polish clean the souls of a lot of likeable street people." Posted Jun 5, 2008	Car Wash (1976)	85%
	"Director/co-scripter Nora Ephron pitches the humor at a cacophonous level and displays the comedic equivalent of two left feet in evolving an absurdist, slapstick yarn." Posted Jun 1, 2008	Mixed Nuts (1994)	7%
	"Pillow Talk is a sleekly sophisticated production that deals chiefly with s-e-x." Posted May 28, 2008	Pillow Talk (1959)	92%
	"Working Girl is enjoyable largely due to the fun of watching scrappy, sexy, unpredictable Melanie Griffith rise from Staten Island secretary to Wall Street whiz." Posted May 27, 2008	Working Girl (1988)	83%
	"Gena Rowlands is excellent as the tired woman who decides to take her chances for the boy. The kid is a right blend of understanding and childish tantrums." Posted May 27, 2008	Gloria (1980)	95%
	"Tomei, sashaying through the proceedings as kind of a sexy hood ornament, creates a buoyant chemistry with her combative b.f." Posted May 27, 2008	My Cousin Vinny (1992)	89%
	"As usual in this type of farce, male and female leads have fewer comic lines than supporting players. But Curtis registers exceptionally well when detailing supposed marital problems to adviser." Posted May 27, 2008	Sex and the Single Girl (1964)	60%
	"Norman Krasna's screenplay, from his Broadway legiter, doesn't really get rolling until it has virtually marked time for almost an hour, but once it gets up this head of steam the entire complexion of the picture seems to change." Posted May 27, 2008	Sunday in New York (1963)	n/a
	"Director Sydney Pollack and star Robert Redford have lost their normally dependable quality touch as they slog through a notably uncompelling $45 million-plus tale of a gringo caught up in the Cuban revolution." Posted May 26, 2008	Havana (1990)	17%
	"A splendidly disturbing look at the power of sloppy reporting to inflict harm on the innocent." Posted May 26, 2008	Absence of Malice (1981)	77%
	"A moderately entertaining film, but no screen magic from Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. The pic is overlong, talky and diffused." Posted May 26, 2008	The Electric Horseman (1979)	59%

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